Jacob Burckhardt and the "Renaissance" north of the Alps

Author

Boucher, Bruce

Document type

Article (acte de congrès)

Language

English

Conference title

Time and place : the geohistory of art

Author (monograph)

Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta (Editor, Collective Author); Pilliod, Elizabeth (Editor, Collective Author)

Source

Time and place : the geohistory of art. 2005, 21-35, 2 ill.

Publisher

Ashgate, Aldershot (gbr)

Publication country

United Kingdom

Abstract (en)

Examines Burckhardt's formulation of the "Renaissance," his struggle with the problem of whether the Renaissance could have existed outside Italy, and his doubt that a true Renaissance might be present north of the Alps, drawing on his unpublished lectures on non-Italian art of the 15th and 16th cs., together with references to his published writings. They reveal the influence of his teacher Franz Kugler's reflections on the impact of the physical as well as the human aspects of geography on art, ideas which coincided with widely held beliefs about the geography of culture. Shows that architecture was Burckhardt's absolute criterion for the Italian Renaissance and demonstrates how this informed his appreciation of Holbein and Rubens.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800
• Burckhardt, Jacob Christoph, 1818-1897
• Art history
• Renaissance
• Art theory
• Europe, Northern
• Italy
• Historiography
• 1400-1600
• Nationalism
• Methodology
• Kugler, Franz Theodor, 1808-1858
• Geography
• Art
• Architecture
• Holbein, Hans, the younger, ca.1497-1543
• Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
• Painting

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800
• Burckhardt, Jacob Christoph, 1818-1897
• Histoire de l'art
• Renaissance
• Théorie de l'art
• Europe du Nord
• Italie
• Historiographie
• 1400-1600
• Nationalisme
• Méthodologie
• Kugler, Franz Theodor, 1808-1858
• Géographie
• Art
• Architecture
• Holbein, Hans, le Jeune, v.1497-1543
• Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
• Peinture

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier20060701-00024171

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